The Flying University of Transnational Humanities

The Flying University of Transnational Humanities

Organizer
Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, College of Humanities, Hanyang University
Venue
Location
Seoul, Korea
Country
Korea, Rep. of
From - Until
15.06.2010 -
Deadline
01.04.2010
Website
By
Lim, Jie-Hyun

The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) is an annual summer school and yearround online forum for researchers and graduate students from all over the world interested in the transnational paradigm of humanistic inquiry.

The Flying University takes its name and immediate inspiration from Poland’s Flying University, a roaming educational enterprise which offered post-secondary education outside the remit of state control and government censorship. FUTH is particularly concerned with developing critical understandings that are resistant to the ideological and ideational hegemony of the nation-state and the epistemological and hermeneutic conventions that support it. This does not mean that FUTH seeks to dispense with the ‘national’ and construct a reified ‘transnational’ to replace it or to foster ‘transnationalism’ as an ideological alternative to ‘nationalism.’ FUTH aims to free our imaginations from the regime of the nation-state and to offer new ways of thinking about the political, social and cultural order of the world, both past and present.

The Flying University of Transnational Humanities is accordingly,
- Trans-cultural: FUTH will not only critically examine the production and dissemination of (trans-) national knowledge and culture, but also problematize imagined geographies of “the
East” and “the West.” In so doing, we will explore times, places, and subjects as fluid and hybrid,rather than as confined and constrained by geopolitical or cultural boundaries.
- Trans-disciplinary: FUTH seeks to comprehend the complex nature of various trans-cultural issues and employ trans-disciplinary approaches. To that end, FUTH is open to scholars, educators, researchers and students from all academic specializations.
- Trans-institutional: FUTH is an intellectual network, founded and run by a global consortium of scholars, departments, and institutions. With the support of this network, we hope to facilitate
trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary collaborations.

Program
FUTH is “in session” once per year for one week, and will normally be held during summer vacation. The host site changes on an annual or bi-annual basis and rotates between partner institutions. FUTH online runs year-round. All institutions, departments, and individual scholars are welcome to participate.

Each year, the summer school will have a different cross-disciplinary theme and sub themes around which the sessions will be organized. It will consist of conferences, lectures, and seminars where renowned scholars will be invited to share their ideas. Student participants will have an opportunity to present their papers or doctoral theses. In addition, through its dedicated website, FUTH offers a permanent on-line space for interactive discussions among all participants. All lectures, seminars and presentations will be held in English. When the theme has been selected, the FUTH steering committee will draft a syllabus for student attendees and invite speakers in consultation with host institutions and other specialists. The syllabus will be distributed to all FUTH affiliates as well as posted on the FUTH website.

How to Apply / Eligibility
The first Flying University of Transnational Humanities is tentatively scheduled to be held in mid-June, 2010, at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (see the preliminary program below). The application form will soon be available online at http://rich.ac.

Please send the completed form in English by April 1 to:
Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture
College of Humanities, Hanyang University
Seoul 133-791, Korea
Fax: +82-2-2298-0542
E-mail: hk.transnational@gmail.com

Applicants must currently be enrolled in postgraduate degree programs or have just completed their PhDs, and major in the humanities and social sciences—including history, literature, anthropology, cultural studies and other related fields. Students of all nationalities and backgrounds are welcome to apply. Since the working language of FUTH will be English, however, prospective participants are expected to have sufficient knowledge of this language. As enrolment numbers are limited, admission is based on merit.

Advisory Committee
Lim Jie-hyun, Hanyang University, South Korea (Chair)
Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore, Singapore/University of Chicago, USA
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, USA
Alf Luedtke, Erfurt University, Germany
Mitani Hiroshi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sakai Naoki, Cornell University, USA

Programm

Date: June 11 - 16, 2010
Venue: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture,
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

DAY 1: JUNE 11 (FRIDAY)

14:00-14:30 Registration

14:30-15:00 Opening Remarks
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)
Welcome Address
- TBC / Chong Yang Kim (President, Hanyang University, Korea)
Congratulatory Remarks
- TBC / Young Ahn Kang (National Research Foundation of Korea)

15:00-16:15 Keynote Speech
- Sakai Naoki (Cornell University, USA)

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

CONFERENCE

16:30-18:30 Session 1: De-regionalizing Regions
Chair: TBA
1. “Asia” in Chinese Reactions to the Great War - Seen From Transnational Perspectives
- Dominic Sachsenmaier (Duke University, USA)
2. Fractured Unity: The Making and Unmaking of Borders and Their Transnational Dynamics
in Modern Europe
- Bernhard Struck (University of St. Andrews, UK)
3. Economic Crisis and the Urgent, Everyday Experience of Region: Lessons from the Most
Marginal Places
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)
Discussant: Michael Schoenhals (Lund University, Sweden)

19:30 Welcome Dinner

DAY 2: JUNE 12 (SATURDAY)

10:30-12:30 Session 2: Dynamics of “in-between” Regions
Chair: TBA
1. East Central Europe: Challenge or Eldorado for Doing Transnational History?
- Frank Hadler (GWZO, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
2. Sayyid Hussein Story: Hami Muslims and the Frontier Perspective on the East Asian World
- Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA)
3. Asian-German Studies: Methodology, Theory, and Practice
- Young-Sun Hong (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Discussant: Seung Mi Han (Yonsei University, Korea)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:45 Session 3: Counter-memories of Regions
Chair: TBA
1. Regions and Regionalism in the Historical Culture of the Third Reich
- Peter Lambert (Aberystwyth University, UK)
2. Mass Murder by Mosquito: The Yaeyama Malaria Reparations Campaign, 1989-1977
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
3. “Asia” as a “relational” concept from the perspective of Japanese Marxist Philosophers:
Hiromatsu Wataru, Miki Kiyoshi, and Tosaka Jun
- Nakajima Takahiro (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Discussant: Mitani Hiroshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Session 4: Reimagining Regions
Chair: TBA
1. 1884, Before Asia
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)
2. Network, Identity and the State: Explaining the Dynamics of Transnational Asia and a
Rising China
- Hong Liu (University of Manchester, UK)
3. What is Wrong with the Alternative Modernities Thesis?
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Discussant: Daqing Yang (George Washington University, USA)

DAY 3: JUNE 13 (SUNDAY)

CURRICULUM

I. Problematizing Regions and Regionalization

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig, Germany)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

18:00- FUTH Steering Committee Meeting

DAY 4: JUNE 14 (MONDAY)

II. Rethinking Regions and Regionalization: Transnational Perspectives

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

DAY 5: JUNE 15 (TUESDAY)

III. Towards Reflexive Regionalization?

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

DAY 6: JUNE 16 (WEDNESDAY)

10:00-11:45 Wrap-Up Roundtable Discussion

11:45-12:00 Closing Remarks
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)

12:00 Adjournment

13:00- Optional Tour (“Borderless Village” in Wongok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do)

Contact (announcement)

Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture
College of Humanities, Hanyang University
Seoul 133-791, Korea
Fax: +82-2-2298-0542
E-mail: hk.transnational@gmail.com


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